may already be a popular tourism destination, but local people on the island continue to live simple lives.island barangay of LogonIt is for this reason that they did not have four-wheeled vehicles as they also tried to minimize the construction of buildings on the island, Daño said.
Their men continue to go out to sea for their consumption. If they have more than enough catch, they are also able to sell these to buyers. “Dili gyud mi mobiya sa panagat kay dili man pud pirmaninti nga naay mangabot nga turista. Naa man say mga buwan nga mingaw labi na kun maglain ang panahon,” he said.Daño said about 95 percent of their residents continued to rely on the sea while the remaining five percent were professionals.Daño recalled that it was only in the 1980s that they started the use of a generator set to power important infrastructure that were on the island.
It now had two private power providers and three water desalination plants that catered especially to the resorts, dive shops and other businesses that were on the island, Daño said.Daño said foreign tourist arrivals would be at its peak from November to May. The island’s top tourists included the Koreans, Europeans and Chinese.“Linaw gyud kaayo na siya. Dili rough ang dagat,” he said.
“Before tungod sa kadaghan [sa turista], ang uban magtent na lang. Amo na na gihinay-hinay og limit para sa safety og aron dili pud maguba ang dagat,” he said. In the area of transportation, Daño said, they were now waiting for the implementation of a circumferential road project by the Cebu provincial government to improve mobility on the island.